Center for Research in Neurobiology 'Daniel Bovet'

Sapienza Neuroscience Seminar Series in 2023:

Prof. Micah Murray

Seminar title: “MULTISENSORY PROCESSES ACROSS THE LIFESPAN: FROM CORE PHENOMENA TO CLINICAL APPLICATIONS AND ACCESSIBLE TECHNOLOGIES”

Invited speaker:

Prof. Micah M. Murray (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

https://www.unil.ch/line/en/home/menuinst/people/micah-m-murray.html

Date and schedule of the seminar:

April 14,  2023 

01:30-02:30 p.m. CEST (Italian, German, and French time)

Avenue: Aula Odeion, Department of Science of Antiquities Ground Floor - Museo dell'Arte Classica- (building code:CU003)

Join the Online Zoom session at https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/94770065528

The seminar: It provides an overview of our efforts to understand the multisensory nature of the human brain. First, a summary of how human brain imaging, mapping, and stimulation have been innovated to document multisensory processes in the human brain is provided, followed by evidence of the behavioral and perceptual relevance of such processes. Next, the persistence of multisensory processes across time is demonstrated by documenting their contribution to memory functions. This is followed by demonstrations across infancy, childhood, adulthood, and aging of how low-level multisensory processes scaffold and even predict the integrity of higher-level cognitive functions. Finally, the contributions of multisensory processes to the accessible and democratized rehabilitation of sensory loss is presented. Collectively, this work outlays a roadmap for the central role of multisensory processes across the lifespan in health and disease.

Prof. Micah M. Murray serves as the founding Scientific and Academic Director of The Sense Innovation and Research Center, a joint venture of the Lausanne University Hospital, the University of Lausanne, and the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland. He earned a double BA from Johns Hopkins University (1995). He received his Ph.D. with honors in neuroscience from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University (2001). He was a post-doctoral scientist at the University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland. Since 2003, he has held a faculty position at the University Hospital Center and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland (CHUV-UNIL), with appointments in the Radiology, Clinical Neurosciences, and (since 2015) Ophthalmology Departments. Since 2008, he has held an adjunct faculty position at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN, USA). He is the founding director of the Laboratory for Investigative Neurophysiology and the CIBM EEG CHUV-UNIL Section of the Center for Biomedical Imaging. Dr. Murray has a contiguous record of grant support from the Swiss National Science Foundation and numerous other foundation and industrial grants. He is the laureate of awards from the Leenaards Foundation, the Swiss Society for Biological Psychiatry, the Swiss National Science Foundation, and the Swiss Brain League. Dr. Murray has published over 200 original research articles and reviews. He currently holds editorial positions at Brain Topography(Editor-in-Chief), Neuropsychologia (Section Editor), and Current Biology (Editorial Board). His research focuses on brain imaging and mapping methods as well as their applications in both health and disease across the lifespan. His work has not only led to new schemas of brain functional organization but also to new diagnostic and intervention strategies for cognitive dysfunction using sensory processes as an access point.